DOUBLE TROUBLE (Sebastian Sallow x F!MC)

i'm right where i cause no harm, mind my business
if our love died young, i can't bear witness and its
been so long, but if you ever think you
got it wrong i'm right
where you left me.

After that brief encounter with Daisy in the Common Room, Sebastian headed towards the dormitory he shared with Ominis and Christopher Black, the headmaster's nephew. He slammed the door, startling the blond boy who was idly playing and twirling his wand between his fingers. Ominis sat up abruptly, looking at Sebastian in confusion as he threw himself onto the bed, covering his face with his hands.

— What happened? — Ominis asked cautiously, in a tone very different from the derisive one that had accompanied Sebastian throughout the journey on the Hogwarts Express.

— That bloody woman will be the death of me, I'm telling you. If the Dementor's Kiss doesn't kill me first, it'll be the heart attack she caused me.

Ominis tried to stifle a laugh, knowing full well he wasn't being ironic: it was simply Sebastian at the height of his dramatics. — What did you do?

Sebastian looked shocked, almost offended that Ominis had already assumed it was his fault. — What makes you think it was my fault?

— I know for sure. Tell me. — Ominis knew Sebastian like the back of his hand; they had been best friends for ten years and had spent most of their lives together with Anne, both inside and outside Hogwarts. The curly headed man rolled his eyes at that sentence.

— I just asked if she was in love with Garreth and she got mad. I'm telling you, she's crazier than I am.

Ominis was surprised, more by Sebastian's total nonchalance than by the subject of the discussion with Daisy. — You haven't spoken to her in a year, and the first thing you ask is how she feels about Garreth? — Sebastian shrugged, twirling his wand between his fingers. — You're such a prick.

— That invitation to keep Madame Blainey company is still open.

— Sebastian — Ominis called, clearly exasperated. — Do you still love her?

— No.

— Then why do you care so much about her relationship with Garreth? Just out of pure egotism? — Ominis raised an eyebrow. He already knew his best friend hadn't remotely forgotten his ex, partly because it amused him to watch Sebastian's reactions whenever he crossed paths with her and partly because he did nothing but talk - or rather, complain - about her. He just wanted him to admit it out loud.

— I just want to know if she's in love with him.

— So you can give up and convince yourself to forget her forever? — Sebastian nodded, and Ominis sighed before punching him in the arm. — What the fucking hell...?

— Wake up, Sebastian. If you still love her, try to regain her trust. Show her that you've changed.

Sebastian hated admitting that Ominis was right, which happened almost all the time: he couldn't keep getting angry about his ex's new relationship, especially since he had been the one to break up with her. At the end of the fifth year, his life had taken a horrible turn: he had fallen victim to the Dark Arts, had become obsessed with Salazar Slytherin and everything he had written in his centuries-old journal. He no longer slept, no longer ate, had become grumpy with anyone who approached him, and took any opportunity to vent his frustrations on the unfortunate person of the moment. After killing his uncle, though, he realized he had to distance himself from everyone he cared about to recover and become, at least, a shadow of what he had been before Anne was cursed; this, of course, primarily meant distancing himself from the first person he had ever fallen in love with. Sebastian had been selfish enough to put his needs before anyone else's, including Daisy's: he had locked himself in his bubble of pain and regrets for so long that he hadn't realized how much she was suffering as she tried to overcome all the traumas caused by the endless confrontations with Ranrok, Rookwood, Harlow, and their respective followers, the daunting trials she had to face on behalf of the Keepers, and all the events that had characterized her fifth year. Daisy had stayed by his side to pick up the pieces of his life and help him put them back together while trying to do the same with her own—in total solitude. Sebastian suddenly felt so disgusted by his own behaviour that he concluded he had never deserved her.